Night Riding

[shootingstar]

Yup, I agree with Mimi that is the case for me as well. Still it's lovely to cycle on quiet, open stretches of road at night. I used to cycle-commute daily through Stanley Park in Vancouver ----in the dark. This park if you are unfamiliar has tall old growth trees/woods, bushes. Totally different character and spooky compared to day time with tons of cyclists, roller bladers, joggers. Some areas don't have street lights along the inner roads.

However I guess we could go night wilderness riding in the Rockies ...and hope not to run into a deer, bear, elk, bighorn mountain goat, moose... Another extreme. The locals get bothered by elk and deer tromping around into their gardens and at the front door in the downtown area.

Seriously these animals are in abundance because they are in protected huge national and provincial parks. And night time would bring them out.

We live 120 kms. south of Banff, the start of combined urban and wilderness...which rapidly peeters out after only 10 kms. from town into wilderness. Most paths going out of town don't have any streetlights. It would be pitch black dark into wilderness.